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In a realistic bridge design code, the design live loads should be based on actual traffic loads, as discussed in Chap. 1. In the past, the information about the actual traffic loads on highway bridges was obtained from truck surveys, in which the trucks are stopped for measurement and weighing on ‘static’ weighing scales. During the past few decades, however, the information about the truck loads is collected while the trucks are moving at normal speeds. Some of the weighing-in-motion (WIM) scales are installed in the pavement. In other WIM systems, a highway bridge is used for the weighing-in-motion of the trucks; this latter system is referred to herein as the bridge WIM (BWIM) system, and the system installed in the pavement as simply the WIM system. The WIM systems are significantly more expensive and are expected to be more accurate than the BWIM systems.
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Bakht, B., Mufti, A. (2015). Bridge Weighing-in-Motion. In: Bridges. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17843-1_11
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